My garden is a small urban garden at the back of a small Victorian terraced split-level house. Such as of yet nebulous plans I have! There will be food crops, and pretty flowers, and bird feeders, and room to hang out laundry.
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| April last year, just after we moved in. |
The other ones are a Celtic Tiger commuter belt housing estate back garden (henceforth referred to as "K2") and a large rural garden on a mountain side. I'd love to do the bigger garden at the "prairie" style of Piet Oudolf, since it would work with the scale of the place as well as the location, sloping towards some fields. I've yet to pitch this to the owner, but who would say no to something like this, hmm?
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| Source: oudolf.com |
For further inspiration, here's Piet Oudolf's flickr stream.
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The most obvious challenge at K2 is the heavy clay soil. Whether it's top soil brought in or the original greenfield ex-stud paddock soil I don't know, but if it's at all wet, I'm not heavy enough to sink a spade in, even if jumping up and down on it.
For the "Mountain Prairie", the exposed location will be an interesting aspect to work around. Other than that, We Shall See.
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